Coking apparatus.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906. w. KENNEDY. GOKING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED FEBJ 1905.

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INVENTOR Wm (Mal WITNESSIS No. 831.163. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906 W. KENNEDY.

GOKING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.1.1905.

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WAL'IER. KENNEDY, OF PlTTSPzUlii, PENNSYLVANIA.

GOKING Asses/Mus.

Application filed February 1,1905.

To all, whom it may come/Wm Be it known that l, WALTER KENNEDY, of Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Coking Aoparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Whic Figure l a plan view of apparatus einbodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line H II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the parts in another position. Fig. 4 is an end elevation oi the apparatus fortransferring the coked charge to railway-cars,and Fig. 5 is a plan view thereof.

In the drawings, 2 2 represent beds on which my movable ovens 3 rest during the The ovens are set thereon in parallel rows, between which er:- tends at a lower level a track 4;, upon which the cars 5 5 run, which receive and carry away the coked contents of the ovens. Above the rows of ovens is a traveling crane 6, mounted on a track 7 )arallel with the ridge 8, carrying trolleysQ 10, provided with hoists for raising and lowering the ovens for handling the lid 11, which is set over the hot 'i'iiass of coke on the car 5, and for carrying the movable bin or ho per 12, from which the coal to be coked is fed The bridge also has a drum. 1?, from which chains or ropes 14 14 extend transversely for attachment to the oven, enabling the oven to be moved laterally to and from the coking-bed. v

The ovens are masonrystructures, as

shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, inclosed in strong metal shells or casings and are pro.- vided with lugs 15 for engagement with books 16, which depend from the lifting-trolley 9 These hooks are pivoted at 16 to cross-l ars 16", which render the device flexible and easy to engage.

Fig. 3 shows one of the ovens 3 in the operation of being ch argcd with coal and a second oven 3 in which the charge has been coked, having the lilting-chains applied to it and in readiness to be shifted laterally to the car.

Tocharge the empty oven 3 bins or hopers 12 are iilled with coal and brought opposite to the oven on the car'5. One of them is then raised by the hoisting mechanism on the trolley 10', is moved on the bridge directly above the oven. 3 and its content of coal is then discharged directly into the oven, this Specification of Letters Patent.

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operation being repeated often as needed to iill the oven to the required extent. The coal in the oven is'thcn (-okcd in the usual way.

When a charge has been colred, it is then removed onto the car 5. (Shown in Fig. 2.) For this purpose the books 16 are brought into cngagementwith the oven 3 which contains the coked charge, the car 5 is brought opposite to the oven. 3, and its bed or platform 17 is shilted so as to be llush with t as shown in Fig. 2. to make the bed 17 shift-able laterally on the axles of the car by means oi bell-crank levers 18 or otherwise. The oven is then raised slightly by lifting the hooks it"), so as to clear it tact with the coking-bed 2, and by drawing on the chainje the oven is shifted laterally, dragging the body of the coke is deposited upon the platform of the on which the oven rests,

car 5. The oven is then raised clear of the.

mass of colrcd coal, leaving the latter resting on the car, as shown at 19 in Fig. 2. The trollr 9 is then moved back over the bed 2, and the oven is lowered into the original position, (shown in Fig. 3,) where it is in readiness to recoal. The lid 11 is then moved over the body of hot coke on the car 5 and is lowered so as to cover and inclose the same and prevent loss of coke by con1bustion, an d the car is then drawn off and the hot charge of coke quenched and discharged into railway-cars. V

I. prefer to discharge the coke into railwaycars by the use of the apparatus shown in F 4 and For this purpose the car 5, carrying the mass ol coke covered by the lid, is conveyed on its track to .a point under an elevated. crane bridge 20 on which there isa trolley 21, ada ted to be moved back and forth. along the )ridge by means of a suitable motor 22. The trolley carxucs a depending lilting-frame 23, having hooks or other devices 24 for engaging lugs 25 on the lid 11. When the car carrying the coked charge is brought opposite to the lifting device 23, the latter is moved along its track until the hoolgs 24 come opposite to the projections 25, and at this point the wheels of the trolley 21 reach a raised portion 26 of its track, which lifts it somewhat, and thus elevates the lid 11 slightly above the platform of the car. Further motion of the liltingwrane 23 will then carry the lid 11 laterally over the railway-car I 27 onto which the coked charge of coal then ie bed 2 I coked coal with it until Q i drops, and Water can be immediately discharged on the coke to quench it in the car, or it may be quenched before it is dischar ed from the lidby admitting Water into the id,

' 5 For the purpose of carrying off from the oven gases formed by the coking of the coal I prefertolarrange in the beds2 2 under; ground flues 28, leading to a stack and havin projecting pipes 29,'provid ed with suit:

10 ab e valves, preferably of the well known Spearman tpe, said. pipes 'beingadaptedto register Wit the flue-openings 30, formed in theoven, so that when the evens are broiight into'position on the coking bed they willau 1.5;, tomatioally come into registr with the pipes 29, which-Will then draw 0 and deliver to the stack-flue 28 the coking. operation.

By'pr'oceedin "in this manner the'costiof so handling thecoa and coke and of moving the V oven is reduced to a'ggninimumand Iam en abled to realize to the best advantage the benefits obtained by coliin the. coal repeat edl'y on a hotbed without'chilling the oven or 2 s'inj-u'ring its structure bythe operation; of 'diawingand quenching in the oven heretofore commonly practiced.

Iclaim 1.} Cokin apparatus, comprisi v thaoom 30' b ina tion 'o coking-beds, mova le ovens mounted thereon, and a traveling lifting de,-;

vice having pendent flexible su ports adapt;- ed'to'gras and'lift the ovens oni the beds andflexib e means connectedwith said su 5' ports for shifting the ovens laterally; suhstantially as described.

Coliin ap aratus comprising the com- -hination 0 co ing-beds, movableovens mounted thereon, a traveling ,liftingdevice 0 having pendent flexible su ports adapted to gras and lift the ovens thorn. the bed and exi le means connected with said supports for shifting the ovens laterally, and. a car adapted'to travel along tlieline of 'suchovens I 45- and to receive the coked mass; substantially as described.

3, Cokin apparatus, comprising the combination 'o coking-beds, movable ovens mounted-thereon, a traveling lifting device,

5c and chains or ropes extending over the beds gases formed by the mass onto a car, a lid for coverilpg mass, and a shifting device fors mounted thereon, a traveling lifting "device having flexible means extending over the beds adapted to grasp the ovens to lift and shift them, and means on said lifting device for handling a charging-hopper for deliveririgcoal to the oven; substantially sedescribed;

5. A coke-oven movable to *and fronr the with the oven when thelatter-is in cokingposition; substantiallyas described.

fih'Coking apparatus comprising a coking oven, means for moving the ody of'coke as a nassonto a'car, a lidifor coverin the coked mass, and a shifting device fors ting the lid ion'the car and carrying the coke thereirom, and discharging it into a car or: other-receptacle; substantially as described.

I 7, Coking apparatus-com rising seekingoven, means for moving the ody of'eoke as a mass onto a car, a'lid for covering-gthe gpkleg ingt e i mass, and a shifting device for shi on the car and'carrying"the-coke'therefiom coking-bed, and agaseexit flue extending be- 0W the bed of the oven adapted to regrsten and discha ing it into a car or otlirreoept'acle, said s 'ftin 'means beingadapted to raise the lid from t e bed of-the can; substantially as described;

8 Coking apparatus comprising-mockingoven, means for moving the ody coke as a the coked ting the lid on the car and'carrying thecolie therefrom anddischarging it into a'car ordtheruewp- 't'acle, said shifting means being mounted on a" 1 l.

track provided with an. elevated ortion v 9. adapted to raise it and to elevate the l d fi'om the body of the car; substantially as described. I I Intestimony whereof I have hereunto'set my hand. i

WALTER KENNEDY. I

Witnesses:

/ Jenn MILLER,

H. M. Conwm. 

